Michael Farber Explained

Michael Farber
Occupation:	Journalist, author
Employer:	Sports Illustrated Montreal Gazette

Michael Farber (born September 1951)^[1] is an American author and sports journalist, and was a writer with Sports Illustrated from 1994 to 2014.^[2] He covered mostly ice hockey and Olympic sports. Before 1994, Farber spent 15 years as a sports columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and previously wrote for the Bergen Record, and the Sun Bulletin.^[3] Farber is a commentator for CJAD 800 AM in Montreal, and on The Sports Network's The Reporters.

Farber grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey.^[4] He graduated from Rutgers University in 1973, and is a Phi Beta Kappa Society member. He relocated to Montreal in 1979. He won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2003, and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Michael Farber. September 8, 2015.
2. Web site: Vault: Michael Farber. SI.com. Sports Illustrated. December 25, 2017.
3. Web site: Michael Farber. SI.com. Sports Illustrated. December 25, 2017.
4. Farber, Michael. "Garden State: Returning to his hometown, Bayonne, the author marvels at the incongruity of an ultra exclusive golf club sharing a zip code with a city that's best known as a punch line", Sports Illustrated, November 12, 2007. Accessed December 26, 2017. "Bayonne is my hometown, in that I lived there for the formative years between fifth and 10th grade and the summers afterward."
5. Web site: Selection Committee. Legends of Hockey. Hockey Hall of Fame. December 25, 2017.